Patents by Inventor Douglas Harvey

Douglas Harvey has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080138020
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly is provided. The cable assembly includes a housing, a plurality of furcation tubes, and a bundled cable. The housing has an opening at a first end and a plurality of channels at a second end. The furcation tubes are aligned with corresponding channels. One end of the bundled cable extends into an interior space of the housing through the opening. The bundled cable has a cable jacket and cable filaments. A first portion of the cable filaments extends beyond the end of the cable jacket in the interior space. A plurality of optic fibers is disposed in the bundled cable and the housing, and a molding compound is disposed around the furcation unit. Individual optic fibers are in individual furcation tubes and movable to slide longitudinally relative to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventors: Paul Robinson, Daniel Bagby, Terry Kleeberger, Anthony Thostenson, Bill Eliot, Douglas Harvey
  • Patent number: 7270485
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly is provided. The cable assembly includes a housing, a plurality of furcation tubes, and a bundled cable. The housing has an opening at a first end and a plurality of channels at a second end. The furcation tubes are aligned with corresponding channels. One end of the bundled cable extends into an interior space of the housing through the opening. The bundled cable has a cable jacket and cable filaments. A first portion of the cable filaments extends beyond the end of the cable jacket in the interior space. A plurality of optic fibers is disposed in the bundled cable and the housing, and a molding compound is disposed around the furcation unit. Individual optic fibers are in individual furcation tubes and movable to slide longitudinally relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Carlyle, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Robinson, Daniel Bagby, Terry Kleeberger, Anthony Thostenson, Bill Eliot, Douglas Harvey
  • Patent number: 7236791
    Abstract: The present invention relates to wireless telephone networks, and more particularly to the allocation of radio channels to calls in CDMA-based systems when their Radio Access Networks (RAN) are congested. A Base Station (BS) receives a call origination from a mobile device. The BS communicates information about the call and about its radio availability to a Mobile Switching Center (MSC). The MSC determines the priority of the call and how the call should be treated by the BS based on the supplied information. The MSC communicates the treatment information and the priority information back to the BS. When the RAN is congested, high-priority calls are queued. These high-priority calls are served based on allocation specification in which radio channels may be assigned to low-priority calls, which are not queued, while there are still calls in the queue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dwayne Chambers, Renling Lawrence Huang, Ismael Lopez, Rafael Quintero, Douglas Harvey Riley
  • Patent number: 7142857
    Abstract: The apparatus, method and system embodiments of the present invention provide for maintaining call control at a gateway mobile switching center (MSC), for roaming mobile units, utilizing a packet network or link, such as an ATM link. The preferred system embodiment includes a gateway MSC, a serving MSC, and a base station having a wireless link with the roaming mobile unit. The gateway MSC includes a protocol handler for voice (PHV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Thomas Calabrese, Thomas Edward Hudepohl, Douglas Harvey Riley, Robin Jeffrey Thompson
  • Patent number: 7113787
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for completing a priority call to a wireless border switch. A priority or preemption request is transmitted as part of the signaling messages used to set up a call. A border switch is a switch which is used in conjunction with the switch indicated by the last-seen pointer from an HLR entry for the called terminal to page a called station. The switch indicated by the last-seen pointer transmits the priority request to a border switch, to indicate that the call should be given priority treatment. Further, preemption service for calls terminating on a wireless station can be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dwayne Chambers, Bonnie Marie Hitzeman, Rafael Quintero, Douglas Harvey Riley
  • Patent number: 6236857
    Abstract: Techniques for providing enhanced wireless services such as interactive voice services to a serving mobile switching center which is originating a call for a mobile station that requires such services via the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The serving mobile switching center has a trigger which causes it to respond to a call from the mobile station by sending a message according to the IS 41 protocols to the enhanced mobile switching center that provides the enhanced service. The enhanced mobile switching center responds to the message by associating the contents of the message with a temporary local dialing number (TLDN) and sending a message to the serving mobile switching center that contains the TLDN. The serving mobile switching center uses the TLDN to set up a call via the PSTN to the enhanced mobile switching center, which then uses the content of the message associated with the TLDN to establish which enhanced service is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Calabrese, Nicholas John Gnesda, Douglas Harvey Riley, Jeffrey Arthur Zahnle
  • Patent number: 6131025
    Abstract: A method for providing universal access to service features by subscribers of a wireless telecommunications service provider comprises establishing a gateway switch interconnected to a plurality of mobile switching centers maintained by other wireless service providers. Trunk connections and signaling links between each mobile switching center and the gateway switch allow the gateway switch to establish call connections and apply service features. Advantageously, the gateway switch is responsible for applying service features and establishing call connection for its subscribers and thereby, results in predictable access to wireless telecommunications services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Harvey Riley, Jeffrey Arthur Zahnle